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2011-07-23 Thread michael sylvester
DO ANTIDEPESSANTS CAUSE DEPRESSION? Michael "omnicentric " Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11569 or send a blank emai

Re: [tips] antidepressants

2011-07-23 Thread Joan Warmbold
What I find so intriguing about your comment Nancy is that this reality should be so obvious to us all due to decades of research that have revealed what an amazingly adaptable (i.e. plastic) brain we have that is constantly modifying it's structure and chemistry to effectively deal with constantly

Re: [tips] antidepressants

2011-07-23 Thread drnanjo
I think that what sticks is that "pills and potions" are "easy" and "might work." Because sadly there seems to be a hard-wired tendency to want to sit on our behinds and have someone else fix it for us. Again, I am not a complete pill atheist. They do help some people with some things. But

Re: [tips] antidepressants

2011-07-23 Thread michael sylvester
Joan: I tend to concur with your post.I have developped the tendency to tell some folks that novel experiences help the brain make new connections and that the brain is stimulated by surprising experiences.As a mobile disc jockey,I rarely play originals of songs,but I would play various versions

re:[tips] antidressants

2011-07-23 Thread Pollak, Edward (Retired)
I think you miss the point, Jim. Certainly there may be different causes for a depression. Some may be more closely associated with genetic, hormonal or other obviously biological factors. Stressful life events are also clearly associated with depression but those events cause depression ONLY by

Re: re:[tips] antidressants

2011-07-23 Thread michael sylvester
I think that we are omitting the role of cognitive factors in the depression experience.Remember the Schachter experiment where subjects were injected with epinephrine and the emotion they experienced was dependent on the perceived mood of the confederates? The idea of learned helplessness could

Re: [tips] Dreaming of Elaine May

2011-07-23 Thread Beth Benoit
Elaine May and Mike Nichols were an amazing comedy team. Here's the sketch to which David Hogberg was referring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5pXggZIr6I&feature=related I have the original album (on LP!) and I have every skit memorized. (What a dork I am! Or a groupie?) Beth Benoit Granite S

Re: [tips] Scientific illiteracy can kill the planet - 2nd Try

2011-07-23 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
I second this request. I ignore them because I don't want to try to figure out where the content is compared to all the administrative materials. Paul On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > > > > > > Richard, > > Is there any way to simplify the format of your posts to TI

re:[tips] antidressants

2011-07-23 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I don't think I missed the point. To speak _hypothetically_ about depression, someone might have a neurotransmitter dysfunction that leads them to have difficulty suppressing information, including negative life events. A drug is developed to redress that dysfunction and alleviates their